Calm before the storm

We're enjoying a few days of planning, quoting and catching up with everyone in the office in Sydney before the busy season 'officially' begins for us this weekend. Greg heads off on Monday to light a massive conference in Athens, while I'm jetting off a week later to light Cleveland's Fabulous Food Show again in the cold, cold Ohio. November sees us spread all over the place, with Greg in Bangkok lighting the next leg of the Cats tour, myself in the USA and UK, and Dan jetting around Australia too. We've got a heap of interesting projects, including performances on islands around Sydney Harbour, live shows with Jamie Oliver, a few innovative and exciting product launches, a DVD shoot for Christian City Church, Bourbonfests in both Sydney and Brisbane as well as a host of end of year Christmas parties, performances and concerts. It's going to be a busy few months! This week we took delivery of our shiny new brochures - get in touch with us if you'd like to see a bit of what we've been up to in the past year - even we can't believe it was our first birthday a couple of weeks ago! So it's full steam ahead for us, watch this space for more blogs from all corners of the world! rich

Gearing up

I've had a busy few weeks since arriving back in Australia. Last weekend was spent on two all night dance parties - the enormous 2007 Sleaze Ball and then Fuzzy's Afterlife party - both at the Hordern Pavilion. With a slightly less busy week I've got a chance to start on paperwork for upcoming Jamie Oliver shows in the UK, and also to get ready for projects around Australia and the US. This afternoon I got a chance to return to the Favela club and add some tricky programming for a Australian television network which saw their logo rocketing through the roof of the venue for a corporate party. It's definitely getting busier and will be good to have the whole crew back in town next week.

Meowmemory

3 more times to hear Memory from CATS here in Korea. It has been a great five months touring Korea. Richard and I have had a ball up here together and individually. We have played 4 cities, renumbered all the cues in the show, transfered from HOG to GrandMA and even managed to go to a few roller coaster parks too (they are not the best, but better than nothing) and eaten TONS of Korean BBQ. The three of us are back in Sydney together for the first time since May 22, and its not for long with projects in Athens, Bangkok, Cleveland, Brisbane and Melbourne in the calendar for the next while. Then there are the jobs in Sydney..... its all go . Stay tuned to the website for announcements of developments at Mandylights. We are excited...you just have to wait!! Nearly show time here, but just so you get a taste of what I and Richard have been looking at recently heres the GrandMA set up in the stalls for the plotting session here in Daejeon Korea. Till the next time from somewhere GY

Back to it

My feet haven't touched the ground since landing in Sydney yesterday after a hectic but fun month in Japan and Korea. Tomorrow I'm off to light the McDonald College Dance Gala at Parramatta's Riverside Theatres, before gearing up to light the main room (Hordern Pavilion) at next week's massive Sleaze Ball. Both shows have great looking lighting rigs going in, and I should say a huge thanks to the respective equipment houses who are supporting the events. The next few weeks are flat out for us, and with Cats finishing it's Korean season soon, we'll be glad to have the three of us back in the same country for a month or so. Stay tuned for a bunch more updates in the next few weeks, I'll post when I get a chance to breathe between shows! Cheers Rich

The McDonald College Season

A very special time has rolled around in the MandyLights Calendar... Its The McDonald College Season. Over the next three weeks The McDonald College showcases its vast array of talent in not 1, not 2, but 3 big concerts!

Today is the Dance Showcase and is followed by a Music Gala next week at the City Recital Hall and another Dance Showcase the week after that.

I'm currently sitting in front of the very first rehearsal at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta and the performers are definitely winding up to what can only be expected to be a very impressive performance. 

Stay tuned to the MandyLights Blog to see all the latest from these concerts including an impressive 40 panels of Colour Web at next weeks Music Gala.

Live from....

Greg brings you another update, this time live from the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney where he is lighting the Dream Ball charity fundraiser event for the Look Good Feel Better Foundation. Should be a bit of fun tonight with Mel and Kochy acting as the hosts. The room has come up a treat with a positive forest of chandeliers. We have about 12 hanging over the main floor- looks very cool. I head back up to Korea in the morning for a few weeks more of Cats. I operate the last Seoul show on Sunday afternoon and then do a transfer to the next city. Great timing on my part to turn up for a load out!! Keeps me busy. Anyway back to rehersals Cheers!

Here and There

Hi All Once again team MANDY is all over the world...well Asia and Australia this week. Im sitting in the Qantas lounge in Hong Kong awaiting a flight to Sydney, Richard is sitting in the National Theatre Seoul Korea operating CATS and Dan is in Sydney doing something lighting wise I hope !!! I have just finished up a stint in Seoul looking after CATS ligting matters and handed the batton to Richard the other day. Instead of just handing Richard the controls to the HOG2, I also gave him a GrandMA to play with. Our project is to transfer the show from HOG to GrandMA. It's a huge project to undertake. I made a great start and Richard will finish it off. I get to head back to Sydney for a week or so and attend a load of meetings and light the Dream Ball next Friday. The next few weeks are filled with more CATS and some corporate events and Richard even gets to have a holiday, which he will well deserve.

Richard hard at work battling it out with a HOG and a GrandMA

Till the next installment from somewhere.....GY